Hillary Clinton is to visit the battleground state of Iowa in a move that
further signals her ambitions to become America’s next president.

The former secretary of state will be the star speaker together with her
husband Bill at a major Democratic fundraiser in the state next month. It
will be her first public appearance in Iowa since 2008, when she lost the
presidential nomination to Barack Obama following a bitterly-contested
battle.

The annual “steak fry” hosted by the Democratic senator Tom Harkin is a major
fixture in the US election circuit and an essential stop on the campaign
trail